A watercolour showing a view of Glen Avon. A hill is shown sloping down from the left. Highland hills are shown in the background. Inscribed below mounted sheet: Glen Avon (looking up.) Oct: 23. 1865. Verso: a pencil drawing showing another view of Glen Avon. Hills are shown sloping steeply down from the left. Inscribed below: Looking down Glen Avon Oct [?23 1865] While staying at Balmoral Queen Victoria made many expeditions to local beauty spots. On 23 October 1865 the Queen rode up Glen Avon with her daughter Princess Helena. In her journal entry of that day, Queen Victoria describes how they "rode about 2 miles up Glen Avon, a fine Glen with hills rising up on each side & the river flowing below. We got off & sat on the heather for luncheon, then sketched".